Mark Steyn: The Arabs' Berlin Wall has crumbled

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 03/01/05 | Mark Steyn

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

The man is GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. :)

[woofie]

then there is this from DU:(Ha Ha)

Blue to the bone (230 posts) Mon Feb-28-05 01:52 PM
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85. Unfortunately, this is yet another development that favors Bush...


........and the Repukes just as the scenes of the purple-fingered citizens of Iraq gave him and his cabal of commercial criminals a big boost.

He'll take credit for what appears to be a sea-change now occurring in the Middle East.

[JasonC]

Remembered? I have no idea who he is, today. And no reason to want to find out. lol.

[EBH]

He hit it on the nail!

Forget explain'en to the left...I've tried the lights too dim.

Just emailed this to my nephew...he got on the ship to come home today...he asked/said, "I hope your all thankful for what we did over here." I hope he reads this article and knows there are millions of people who are grateful.

God Bless the US and President George W. Bush.

[GSlob]

As one Burke noticed 200+ yrs ago, the effects of liberty on the people are such that they are free to do as they please; thus one better wait and see what it would please them to do before offering congratulations (end of paraphrased quote). It well may happen that what is seen behind the fallen wall is such that the wall might have to be erected again - but this time higher and stronger.

[Gritty]

Steyn once again drives it over the left field wall!

It's odd. I don't hear the word "quagmire" very often any more but instead hear certain Liberal (un)worthies surreptitiously climbing onto passing Dubya Middle East Bandwagons!

[Carry_Okie]

Here's another one girls.

[Alouette]

A suicide bomber kills four Jews. So what's new? But this time the Palestinians decline to celebrate.

Actually they did celebrate.

Mon Feb 28, 6:30 PM ET
Palestinian supporters of Islamic Jihad using mock explosive belts take part in a rally against Israel in Hebron University. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) pressed Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas to crack down on Palestinian militant groups, including the Islamic Jihad, linked to last week's deadly suicide attack in Tel Aviv.(AFP/Hazem Bader)

Mon Feb 28, 3:02 PM ET
An effigy decorated with a picture of U.S President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and Israeli flags with red stains representing blood, is seen during a rally in support of the Islamic Jihad movement, which claimed responsibility for last Friday's suicide bomb attack that killed five Israelis in Tel Aviv, in the university of the West Bank town of Hebron Monday Feb. 28, 2005. The rally was the first major expression of support for Friday's bombing. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Mon Feb 28,11:06 AM ET
An Islamic Jihad militant holds a Qassam rocket as he walks on an Israeli flag during a rally in Hebron. Israeli troops in the northern West Bank discovered a car packed with explosives which is believed to have been prepared by militants from the radical Islamic Jihad movement.(AFP/Hossam Abu Alan)

Mon Feb 28,10:26 AM ET
A youngster wearing an Islamic Jihad headband and a masked man wearing a fake explosive belt, right, attend a rally in support of the Islamic Jihad movement, which claimed responsibility for last Friday's suicide bomb attack that killed five Israelis in Tel Aviv at the university of the West Bank town of Hebron Monday Feb. 28, 2005. The rally was the first major expression of support for Friday's bombing. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Mon Feb 28, 9:29 AM ET
Members of Islamic Jihad militant group attend a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 28, 2005. Israel launched a diplomatic offensive against Damascus to lobby for international backing for its accusations of Syrian links to a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed five Israelis. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun

Mon Feb 28, 9:31 AM ET
Members of Islamic Jihad militant group attend a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 28, 2005. Israel launched a diplomatic offensive against Damascus to lobby for international backing for its accusations of Syrian links to a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed five Israelis. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun

Mon Feb 28, 9:31 AM ET
Members of Islamic Jihad militant group attend a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 28, 2005. Israel launched a diplomatic offensive against Damascus to lobby for international backing for its accusations of Syrian links to a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed five Israelis. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun

Mon Feb 28, 9:21 AM ET
A masked supporter of the Islamic Jihad movement, which claimed responsibility for last Frday's suicide bomb attack that killed five Israelis in Tel Aviv, holds a knife and a copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book, during a demonstration in the university of the West Bank town of Hebron Monday Feb. 28, 2005. The rally was the first major expression of support for Friday's bombing. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Mon Feb 28, 9:28 AM ET
Members of Islamic Jihad militant group attend a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 28, 2005. Israel launched a diplomatic offensive against Damascus to lobby for international backing for its accusations of Syrian links to a Palestinian suicide bombing that killed five Israelis. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun

[AFreeBird]

Allow me to be the first to say: IT'S ALL GEORGE W. BUSH'S FAULT!

Yes, but this is one time when 1) it's TRUE and 2) the MSM and the dim's won't admit it.

[clyde asbury]

It well may happen that what is seen behind the fallen wall is such that the wall might have to be erected again - but this time higher and stronger.

Want to put your thoughts on what might be behind the wall out in the open, GS?

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[Maynerd]

The state-run TV network hailed the president's speech as a "historical decision in the nation's 7,000-year-old march toward democracy".

Can't make that stuff up!

[Go Gordon]

It is amazing to see this all happening , quicker than I ever thought.

Just wait until Saddam and his cohorts go on trial, get convicted and are hung. The arab street will be further emboldened and the arab dictators will soil their robes.

[Ichneumon]

Is Steyn the only guy in the media who figured out, one year before we toppled Saddam, what the purpose of our policy in Iraq was?

Probably not the only one, but a member of a select few. What's funny is that it was obvious to most Freepers, but so few in the media seemed to have a clue about it.

[Ichneumon]

[The state-run TV network hailed the president's speech as a "historical decision in the nation's 7,000-year-old march toward democracy".]

Can't make that stuff up!

I know, I was laughing out loud at that one. It sounds like a parody from "The Onion", but it's real.

[hinckley buzzard]

"There is a fearlessness about W. that perseveres against the naysayers."

It is called humility and faith in God, his "higher Father."
When you are listening for the voice of the Master you tend not to be distracted by the incessant yammerings of a peter jennings or an edward kennedy.

[Eurotwit]

I just watched an interesting report from CNN's Nick Robertson in Baghdad.

He was at a cafe and talked to customers about the televised confessions being shown on Iraqi TV. Allawi has been showing captured terrorists, including Syrian intelligence agents, on TV confessing their crimes.

Everyone in the cafe was shocked at how their neighbours wanted to kill them, whilst the West did all it could to help them.

It seemed like Allawi's tactic of showing these televised confessions was rapidly changing attitudes towards the "insurgency".

Cheers.

[Paladin2]

Not only was it Bush's fault, Bush knew!

[GSlob]

Well, suicide bombers en masse, for the beginning.

[McGavin999]

This particular prince has a mischevious streat a mile wide. I remember an interview someone on FOX had with him a couple of years ago and they asked him why women couldn't drive in SA. He said he would love to have women drive since he loves his daughters and thought they would be fine drivers. Then he smiled and said his life would also be a lot easier if the women in his house would stop nagging him about driving.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

It sucks to be a liberal.